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May 2012 Grocery Challenge
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PennyGrabber wrote: »I really felt for you, having that break after you'd been so frugal for the previous days!
I actually only ever use my top oven. I used to use my big oven, but then realised I was paying to heat a massive space, and I could just use the little one! So now, my big oven is a storage cupboard (storage is an issue in my kitchen / I have way to much stuff), and I use the little one to cook with. This Christmas just gone, I did a roast dinner with all the trimmings for 5 people in my little oven!!
NSD today, as day one of my fiscal fast. Go me!! Dinner today was poorly dinner for the children, and the last of the steak for me - fried off, with fried onions and mushrooms, and hm wedges. Nomnomnom!
Hope all are doing well on the run-up to halfway through the month.
PG x
PennyGrabber I know what you mean about the little oven. I had never really used mine before, I always thought I wouldn't get such good results. I have been surprised at how well things cooked and will be using it lots more now
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Wow, Suffolk lass. They sound lush:T
Wouldn't mind trying those. It sounds like a recipe that could be experimented with a bit too;) I love posh buffet food. Great for nibbles if friends come over.:A Every moment is a gift. That's why we call it the present.!:A
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hello, may i ask you a few questions about your small oven.? i have a fan oven at the bottom and the top oven is a grill is this the same as yours? its just my knob for the top oven has the same degrees as knob for big oven so i take it this IS actually a REAL oven not just a grill? if this is the case how do i use it i know that sounds daft,do i take the shelf out and use a roasting dish? does the GRILL not burn the top of the food, sorry for so mant questions but just had a light bulb moment reading your post,i would love to use top bit as an oven as it does sometimes seem a wast turning big oven on for small dishes , sorry for melting your brain:)
That's fine! We never realise some things unless they slap us in the face! That's what I'm like, anyway!!
My top oven has two knobs close to each other. One has pics for the grill, double grill and oven, the other has temps on it. I turn the first knob to oven, and the other one to 180 or whatever, and voila, an oven!! I did take a pic to show you more easily, but I can't put my finger on my card reader! Sorry!
PG xGrocery challenge for family of three - me, dd(12) and ds(11), feeding dp 2 or 3 x a week too. Only food, not toiletries. Jan £87.97/£100 Feb £0/£100
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thanks for replying i am sitting here with the manual for the oven and yes its an oven deep joy lol im elated yayyyyyyyyy (must get a life lol) thanks for your help:)PennyGrabber wrote: »That's fine! We never realise some things unless they slap us in the face! That's what I'm like, anyway!!
My top oven has two knobs close to each other. One has pics for the grill, double grill and oven, the other has temps on it. I turn the first knob to oven, and the other one to 180 or whatever, and voila, an oven!! I did take a pic to show you more easily, but I can't put my finger on my card reader! Sorry!
PG xC.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z #7 member N.I splinter-group co-ordinater
I dont suffer from insanity....I enjoy every minute of it!!.:)0 -
Does cough medicine count as grocery spend? If not, NSD here.0
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Made HM pizza yesterday, I did the base in the BM while I was gardening then realised I had nothing tomatoey {is that a word?} for the base but I had a jar of barbecue sauce to make hunters chicken so I used that and made a meat feast pizza using up various sorts of meat. It went down a treat.Jan GC £300/£296 :j March GC £375/£336:j
Feb GC £300/£290:j April GC £300/£270:j
May GC £250/£273:(0 -
Possession wrote: »You can also freeze pancakes, if you put greaseproof paper between them.
Silly question but how would I defrost/reheat them?jumblejack wrote: ».... And you can make lasagne from them!!
Really? ...
Well Nigela does it it then it must be OKPennyGrabber wrote: »I'm the same with cookbooks!! I also have at least 200 - how many recipes have I cooked from them? Yet I still trawl the net for more!!
Me too. I have about 3 books in the kitchen that I use regually and if they don't have what I want I refer to the internet. The other shealves full of a huge variety of fantastic books remain gathering dust.
Reporting another NSD today"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."Weight loss challenge:j: week 1~ Napoleon Bonaparte
target 8lbs in 4 weeks
Grocery Challenge June: £100/£500
left to spend £400
Declutter June: 0/100
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:)frozen pancakes just take an hour or so to defrost so easy to use , depends on the thickness i make my own ones small thick ones for toasting , once defrosted bung in toaster. if maling the thinner ones same thing apples defrost about an hour and use the way you would use if not frozen hope this helps. p.s..... i also just bung the frozen ones in the toaster straight from the freezer and press the frozen setting button on my toaster they cook perfectly.Silly question but how would I defrost/reheat them?
Really? ...
Well Nigela does it it then it must be OK
Me too. I have about 3 books in the kitchen that I use regually and if they don't have what I want I refer to the internet. The other shealves full of a huge variety of fantastic books remain gathering dust.
Reporting another NSD todayC.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z #7 member N.I splinter-group co-ordinater I dont suffer from insanity....I enjoy every minute of it!!.:)0 -
Cool_Nanna wrote: »Made HM pizza yesterday, I did the base in the BM while I was gardening then realised I had nothing tomatoey {is that a word?} for the base but I had a jar of barbecue sauce to make hunters chicken so I used that and made a meat feast pizza using up various sorts of meat. It went down a treat.
Nice idea! May steal that one - well, quality control and all!!
thanks for replying i am sitting here with the manual for the oven and yes its an oven deep joy lol im elated yayyyyyyyyy (must get a life lol) thanks for your help:)
No prob. You have a life - an mse life! You'll smile every time you use that oven for the next few weeks, I bet! I know I did, thinking of all the money I was saving - I'm the same when I hang a load of washing on the line instead of putting it in the tumble drier!I have about 3 books in the kitchen that I use regually and if they don't have what I want I refer to the internet. The other shealves full of a huge variety of fantastic books remain gathering dust.
That's funny, that's what my books are doing too!! I even have loads of printouts of recipes from here, to make my own use-it-loads recipe book, but obviously I haven't got around to it - story of my life!
Well, I've done loads of housework this evening. Tidied the kitchen, cleaned it a bit, made all the lunches, put the dishwasher on, did a load of washing, hung it out, faffed around a bit, got the bins ready for tomorrow morning... Of course, I only did all of that because I don't want to do the marking! Oh, how well I know myself... I'll have to do it in the morning now.
Night all!
PG xGrocery challenge for family of three - me, dd(12) and ds(11), feeding dp 2 or 3 x a week too. Only food, not toiletries. Jan £87.97/£100 Feb £0/£100
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